Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was a painter and art theoretician, a pioneer of geometric abstract art, and the originator of the Avant-garde Suprematist movement. … (read more)

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was a painter and art theoretician, a pioneer of geometric abstract art, and the originator of the Avant-garde Suprematist movement.

In 1915, he published his manifesto "From Cubism to Suprematism". From 1915 to 1916, he worked with other Suprematist artists in a peasant/artisan co-operative in Skoptsi and Verbovka village and from 1916 to 1917, he participated in exhibitions of the Jack of Diamonds group in Moscow with Nathan Altman, David Burliuk, and A. Ekster, among others. Famous examples of his Suprematist works include Black Square (1915) and White on White (1918).

Malevich acknowledged that his fascination with aerial photography and aviation led him to abstractions inspired by and derived from aerial landscapes.

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